THE TAFE campus will stay at Alexandra Hills but no plans have been drawn up for how all of the land at the site will be used in the future.
The immediate fate of the TAFE land, at Windemere Road, Alexandra Hills, was outlined in a letter from Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek last week ruling out the sale of the entire campus.
The letter was written before the second reading of the TAFE Queensland Bill 2013 in state parliament on Wednesday morning.
A spokesman for Mr Langbroek said there was no guarantee the state would keep all the land at the Alexandra Hills site after December, when the soon-to-be-appointed TAFE board would decide what to do with campus assets.
The letter from Mr Langbroek, tabled in Parliament last week, on May 14, said the Alexandra Hills campus was not one of 25 properties the state proposed to sell as part of a state-wide restructure.
Plans to overhaul the vocational education and training sector, which includes TAFE, were unveiled in a state government-commissioned report on November 6.
The Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce report made 40 recommendations, including shutting "under-utilised" campuses and closing 10 in metropolitan Brisbane, which includes Alexandra Hills.
Mr Langbroek's letter also said the campus was not "having lease arrangements finalised or being transferred".
It added that a Strategic Asset Plan, due in December, would outline any changes to TAFE's footprint.
ALP candidate for Bowman Darryl Briskey said the minister's pledge was no consolation to students wanting a guarantee courses would remain on offer locally for the next four years.
Mr Briskey said 821 people signed his e-petition, launched in November, urging the government to guarantee the institute's long-term future and "rule out its closure".
"This is not just about the land, it's about the college being able to offer courses that the kids from bayside suburbs need and want and can afford," he said.
"What the state plans to do is commercialise the entire TAFE structure so un-profitable courses will be axed.
"TAFE will sub-let to private operators who will be allowed to charge what they want- regardless of what the kids can afford."
Capalaba MP Steve Davies said Mr Langbroek's letter guaranteed a TAFE campus would remain at Alex Hills.
"It's up to the board as to what happens to any under-used portion of the Alex Hills site and to find the best educational outcomes for TAFE.
"Mr Langbroek's letter made no mention of plans for a TAFE-owned block of land in Long Street, Cleveland, ear-marked for sale after being ruled out as an appropriate extension of the Alex Hills campus.
